The New American articles from March 2004

The New American archives from March 2004

Carver: ignored hero.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... Words cannot express my appreciation for Jodie Gilmore's article on Dr. George Washington Carver ("Man of Science--and of God," January 26 issue). Each year for as far back as there has been a "Black History Month" I have waited patiently for...

Immigration.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... Thank you a million times again and again for your article regarding immigration by William N. Grigg ("Amnesty and Betrayal," February 9 issue). When I try to talk to people, alerting or awakening them to this problem, they look at me as though...

Mexico's version of amnesty.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... As usual, you speak the naked truth. But in "Amnesty and Betrayal" (February 9 issue), you neglected to mention the strict immigration laws President Fox enforces with armed guards at the Guatemala border with Mexico. There is no amnesty for...

The power of one.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... The first thing I read in your February 9 issue was the letter from Donald C. Anderson of Nevada, entitled "Nothing 'Made in U.S.A.'" I also do not purchase any products made in China! I write to companies encouraging them to boldly post the...

The right ammo.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 8, 2004... We're in a retirement community now, but oh how I ache to be out where I can shake up the populace. Is there any way to get THE NEW AMERICAN into more hands? These articles are must reading for any responsible citizen. How can we ignore William...

"No Child Left Behind" rebellion.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... "From Utah to Virginia, a revolt is building in classrooms and legislatures against the biggest education reform in a quarter century," observed the February 11 Christian Science Monitor. "The rebellion, in some cases led by GOP lawmakers,...

Lesbian chic.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... "Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, and make way for the younger girls," declared a January 4 Washington Post story. "Way younger, actually, and way different from what most people think of as lesbians." "You can see this new trend on Friday...

National Review lauds Playboy.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... When William F. Buckley started National Review magazine in 1955, he grandly described its mission as that of "stand[ing] athwart history, crying 'stop.'" Two years before Buckley created his journal, Hugh Hefner published the inaugural issue...

Border patrol agents muzzled about amnesty.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... "The Bush administration's proposal to offer amnesty to illegal immigrant workers has prompted federal officials to instruct border patrol agents not to disclose information that might reflect poorly on the idea, a government document shows,"...

Haiti invasion, redux?(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... In 1994, U.S. troops occupied Haiti, under orders from the UN Security Council. Grandly entitled "Operation Restore Democracy," the UN-mandated mission was intended to reinstall Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the drug-addicted Marxist ruler who had...

Nuclear proliferation: the wrath of Khan?(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... "Pakistan has become the world's nuclear Wal-Mart," commented Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Peter Brookes in a February 9 New York Post op-ed column. "The father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, jet-setter scientist A.Q. Khan, turns out to be...

Utah anti-UN resolution provokes debate and media vitriol.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... THE NEW AMERICAN has previously reported on the Utah joint resolution urging Congress to withdraw from the United Nations ("Utah House Passes Resolution to Get the U.S. Out of the UN," February 23 issue). Following passage in the House, H.J.R....

Bush backs UN global disarmament drive.(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... In his classified 1962 report A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations, MIT professor (and Council on Foreign Relations member) Lincoln P. Bloomfield described internationally mandated national disarmament as the "sine qua non"...

Lake Tahoe eco-holocaust?(Insider Report)
March 8, 2004... Over the past decade, fires of unprecedented intensity have denuded millions of acres of forestland, inflicting untold economic ruin, as well as tragic loss of human life, and often triggering catastrophic mudslides. Professor Tom Bonnicksen of...

Bipartisan Bonesmen: the two leading contenders for the U.S. presidency are both members of Skull and Bones, one of the oldest secret societies in America. Why is this not a major election-year issue?(Skull & Bones)(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... Mr. Russert: You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us? Senator Kerry: Not much, because it's a secret. Mr. Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society. President...

Republocrats: the Republican Party has become a virtual clone of the Democratic Party. One administration may be replaced by another, but there are no major policy shifts.(Party Politics)(Cover Story)
March 8, 2004... An examination of Democratic and Republican Party politics in recent decades shows that, no matter how far to the left the Republicans more, the Democrats move even further to the left, enabling both the liberal-left politicians and the major...

George W. Bush is no conservative.(Ahead Of The Curve)
March 8, 2004... ITEM: The February 6, 2004 Washington Times, in an article entitled "GOP slams Bush policies at retreat," reported that "growing frustration over President Bush's immigration plan and lack of fiscal discipline came to a head behind closed doors...

Fighting for real homeland security: families of World Trade Center terror victims are working to end a major threat to U.S. security--the open borders crisis that allowed the 9-11 terrorists into America.(Terrorism)
March 8, 2004... All of the 9-11 murderers had visas issued to them by officials of the State Department. Most, if not all, of those visas were granted in clear violation of... regulations and federal law. --Peter Gadiel Peter...

The Konanykhine case: businessman Alexander Konanykhine blew the whistle on the corrupt, KGB-sponsored figures plundering Russia. That's why both Moscow and Washington want him dead.(Convergence)
March 8, 2004... Alexander Konanykhine is a highly successful 37-year-old Russian expatriate entrepreneur. The U.S. government has accused him--on the basis of dubious evidence provided by Russian investigators--of being an embezzler, a bigamist and a draft...

The Star-Spangled Banner: our beautiful national anthem perfectly mirrors the deeply religious and patriotic nature of its composer, Francis Scott Key.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
March 8, 2004... To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee, A few Sons of Harmony sent a petition; That he their Inspirer and Patron would be; When this answers arrived from Jolly Old Grecian; "Voice, Fiddle, and...

Heroic mail-carrying mom.(The Goodness Of America)
March 8, 2004... The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) held a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on September 17 of last year to honor letter carriers for heroic deeds. One of those recognized was Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, of Columbia, South Carolina, who...

The right man for the job.(The Goodness Of America)
March 8, 2004... Another letter carrier the NALC noted for heroism was Lawrence Swain, an 11-year Postal Service veteran who lives with his wife, Lou Ella, in Boyce, Louisiana, but delivers mail in nearby Alexandria. Ordinarily, he would have passed a...

Home-schooled collegians.(The Goodness Of America)
March 8, 2004... On January 26, the Associated Press reported that colleges and universities are taking increasing note of home-schooled students. AP reporter Steve Giegerich wrote: "Until recently, educators say, home-schooled students mostly gravitated to...

Supporting local sheriffs.(Exercising The Right)
March 8, 2004... In the early morning of January 6, Michael Spearman was awakened by strange noises within his home in north Autauga County, Alabama. Armed with a .357-caliber revolver, he went to investigate and found two men rifling through his gun cabinet....

Learning something.(Exercising The Right)
March 8, 2004... On January 14 in Shreveport, Louisiana, a man walked into a gas station shortly before noon and removed some sodas from a cooler. After walking to the counter, supposedly to check out, he pulled a gun on store co-owner Elvir Cehajic and...

Breakthrough.(Exercising The Right)
March 8, 2004... At around 4 p.m. on September 16, 2003, a woman in North Las Vegas, Nevada, had just stepped out of the shower and was getting dressed when a man suddenly crashed through the ceiling. The single mother of three, whose children were not home at...

"Enough's enough!".(Exercising The Right)
March 8, 2004... The Spot-12-Stop convenience store in North Birmingham, Alabama, had been robbed four times and burglarized on six occasions since late 2002 when yet another would-be robber entered the establishment at around 11 p.m. on November 22, 2003. The...

Robbers routed.(Exercising The Right)
March 8, 2004... A brief news item in the June 9, 2003 Buffalo (New York) News reported that a Buffalo resident had "shot an intruder who tried to rob him inside his house Sunday [June 8]. Police said the resident let a woman come into his house at 3:40 a.m....

Minimum sages.(Between The Lines)
March 8, 2004... ITEM: Democratic presidential candidates were asked by the Associated Press on January 29, "What increases, if any, do you favor in the $5.15 an hour federal minimum wage?" An abbreviated summary of their responses follows: Wesley Clark "will...

Ponzi would be jealous.(Between The Lines)
March 8, 2004... ITEM: Social Security is a "splendid program," argued the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on January 30. "There is absolutely no reason to believe that Social Security" is going broke, of ever will." Indeed, said the Texas paper: "Social Security...

Uncle Sam a fiscal wreck.(Between The Lines)
March 8, 2004... ITEM: The Philadelphia Inquirer for February 1 reported that President Bush had met with GOP strategists, promising "fiscal restraint" and seeking "support for his election-year agenda." Said the President: "At home, we've got to make sure...

Straining at gnats, swallowing camels.(The Last Word)
March 8, 2004... Before allegedly abducting and murdering 11-year-old Carlie Brucia on February 1, Joseph P. Smith had compiled a distinguished record as a thug: His vita includes 13 arrests since 1993. Notes the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: "Time after time,...

Marriage.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... Your article on marriage ("Keep Fedgov's Hands Off Marriage," January 12 issue) was right on. Any amendment is dangerous because it opens up our Constitution to other changes. CHARLES T. ATHERTON Laredo, Texas

Science and design.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... Concerning Jodie Gilmore's article "Man of Science and of God" (January 26 issue), it appears that George Washington Carver is in good company. Signs of Intelligence (edited by Dembski and Kushiner) presents 14 essays by university professors...

Robeson and Russia.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... Warren Mass's article ("A Mockery of Black Heritage," February 23 issue) was of special interest to me for it brought back memories of long ago. In 1948, while teaching in London, England, I was encouraged to go hear Paul Robeson, who was...

The draft.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... I wish to commend your magazine for running William Norman Grigg's article "Reviving the Draft" in your January 26 issue. As an uncompromising Libertarian individualist I am opposed to conscription of any kind, at any time, for any reason. Our...

Job loss remedy.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2004... I want to extend my thanks to William F. Jasper and the entire magazine staff for the excellent ongoing expose on American job losses. What our elected officials ate doing to this once great nation is treasonous, with the only proper remedial...

Will Milosevic walk?(Insider Report)
March 22, 2004... "When UN prosecutors opened their case against Slobodan Miloscvic two years ago, they set out to get him convicted of genocide," noted a February 29 AP news analysis. "The consensus today is, they failed." Milosevic was delivered to the UN...

Crackdown on Chinese christians.(Insider Report)
March 22, 2004... "China's Public Security Bureau [PSB] has launched a new crackdown on unregistered church leaders, arresting 50 or more people following the release of a new video and book documenting huge growth among Christians outside the officially...

Our "friends" to the south.(Insider Report)
March 22, 2004... Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, was the site of the February 10 Olympic qualifying match between the American and Mexican under-23 soccer teams. A New York Times account of the match, which ended in a 4-0 rout of the U.S., describes the...

Dual-military families.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... "For Nicholas, Erika and Logan Stewmon, seeing Mom and Dad both home together is getting to be a very strange thing," observed a February 18 article in Stars and Stripes. Their father, Chief Warrant Officer Brain Stewmon, flies an AH-64D Apache...

ICC blowback for blair?(Insider Report)
March 22, 2004... In early February, the Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair briefly considered prosecuting Katherine Gun, a former employee of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain's eavesdropping agency. Last...

A confected conservative.(Insider Report)
March 22, 2004... Former federal prosecutor Michael McCaul is running unopposed for the newly created 10th Congressional District in Texas. His chief political selling point is his reputation as a specialist on homeland security. Prior to his candidacy he was...

Kerry's chinagate connections.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2004... Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry "unwittingly tried to help a Chinese espionage agent and arms dealer in 1996 in return for campaign contributions for his Senate re-election campaign," reported NBC News on February 17....

Gay marriage quicksand.(The Right Perspective)
March 22, 2004... The President's recent announcement that he supports a constitutional amendment defining marriage has intensified the gay marriage debate. It seems sad that we need government to define and regulate our most basic institutions. Marriage is...

America's hidden strength: despite some distressing signs of the times, America's many layers of hidden strength offer hope that our nation will remain the land of the free and the home of the brave.(Morality)(Cover Story)
March 22, 2004... There are times the recent Super Bowl halftime bacchanalia and the ongoing drive to legalize so-called same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and San Francisco, for example--when moral Americans fighting to save our republic may feel under siege...

Same-sex "marriage" and the homosexual agenda.(Ahead of the Curve)
March 22, 2004... ITEM: New York Times columnist Frank Rich provided the establishment-approved "denouement of the epic drama over gay marriage" in his February 29 celebration of the unnatural union entitled "The Joy of Gay Marriage." "[I]t's going to happen...

Who's the biggest spender? Did the federal government spend more under George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush? The record may surprise you.(For the Record)
March 22, 2004... According to conventional wisdom, the federal government grows faster when a Democrat is in the White House than it does when a Republican is president. Yet the record shows that federal spending actually grew at a slower rate under liberal...

Defending the home: the plight of Wilmette, Illinois, homeowner Hale DeMar shows both the importance of being armed and the unfairness of today's gun laws and criminal-justice system.(Firearms & Freedom)
March 22, 2004... On May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann of Glencoe, Illinois, walked into a second-grade classroom at Hubbard Woods School in nearby Wilmette. Armed with three handguns, she began firing randomly at children, killing one and wounding five others. ...

Worthy of the uniform.(The Goodness Of America)
March 22, 2004... Richard Reimer, of Van Nuys, California, has been a letter carrier for 32 years. The Air Force veteran was a security specialist in Vietnam. He and wife Nancy have two young children. On May 2, 2002, Reimer had just finished his route and...

Heroic teen shows inner strength.(The Goodness Of America)
March 22, 2004... Justin Gregorich of Safety Harbor, Florida, attends Countryside High School in nearby Clearwater. The 14-year-old freshman stands just 5'3" tall and weighs only 130 pounds, yet hopes to make the school's junior-varsity football team. On...

The Passion and the fury: why has a reverent movie about Jesus Christ become one of the most controversial films in history?(Culture War)
March 22, 2004... But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. --Isaiah 53:5 Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ begins with a...

The priestly Pimpernel: operating literally under the nose of the Nazi SS, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty's Vatican-based underground rescued thousands of Jews and Allied POWs.(History--Faith In Action)
March 22, 2004... Of the inmates confined to Italy's Gaeta prison, none was as notorious as Herbert Kappler. Prior to his incarceration in 1945, Kappler had been the most feared man in Italy--commander of SS forces in occupied Rome, with the power to kill people...

Malevolent caretaker.(Exercising The Right)
March 22, 2004... Three or four years ago, James Butler and wife Elizabeth began employing neighbor James Brown to do occasional odd jobs around their home in Rolla, Missouri. Brown, who lived just down the road from the Butlers, did satisfactory work and things...

Lawnmower man.(Exercising The Right)
March 22, 2004... A February 7 Associated Press dispatch (datelined Oxford, Alabama) reported that "a convicted burglar sentenced in Calhoun County to 20 years in prison this week as a repeat offender had an unusual run-in with his victim." The intended...

Ex-marine thwarts robbery.(Exercising The Right)
March 22, 2004... At around 8 p.m. on November 18, 2003, an elderly couple were at home in North St. Louis County, Missouri, when an intruder broke into the house through a basement window. The interloper, Jerrold Cain, first encountered the wife in the...

Dog day.(Exercising The Right)
March 22, 2004... Ivan Blume owns the Quality Canines pet shop in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in selling and training purebred dogs. Shortly after 8 p.m. on December 9, 2003, Michael Live and Hector Perez rang the store's front doorbell. Believing them to...

Chinese take-out market.(Between The Lines)
March 22, 2004... ITEM: The Washington Post for February 17 reported: "A senior U.S. arms control official said... that, despite past sales of nuclear-related technology, the Chinese government now seems committed to cooperating with the United States to...

Your tax dollars overseas.(Between The Lines)
March 22, 2004... ITEM: Foreign aid is "likely to suffer" in President Bush's proposed budget, worried a feature on the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website on February 4. The article claimed such aid has long been used successfully. Now, however,...

Reality isn't optional.(The Last Word)
March 22, 2004... Six years ago, Katie Hnida of Littleton, Colorado, was both the starting placekicker for her high school football team and the reigning homecoming queen. "Is this a great time or what?" exulted Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly,...